Turn Meeting Recordings into Actionable Notes

A recorded meeting is easy to keep and hard to use. Nobody rewatches 50 minutes to find the one decision that was made in minute 34. A written memo solves that: a short summary at the top, the action items, and the full text underneath for anyone who needs the exact wording.

Scrivi turns a meeting video into that memo. Paste the link to the recording and Scrivi returns the transcript. Generate the AI summary and you get a four to six sentence overview, 6 to 10 key points, 5 to 10 chapters that follow the agenda as it actually happened, and, when the discussion produced concrete next steps, a list of action items.

Copy the overview and the action items into an email or your team's wiki, and you have meeting notes in minutes instead of an hour.

Be clear about one thing first: Scrivi is not a meeting bot. It does not join live calls on Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet, it does not record anything, and it cannot open a meeting platform's cloud recording link, because those sit behind a login.

Scrivi works with recordings that are already published as a video on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, or Facebook. For internal meetings the common route is YouTube: upload the recording as an unlisted video, which anyone with the link can view but nobody can find by search, then paste that link into Scrivi. Public meetings, such as town halls, council sessions, all-hands streams, and webinars, are often published on YouTube or Facebook already.

If your team wants live capture during every call, a dedicated meeting assistant is the better tool. If you have a recording and need a memo from it, Scrivi is fast and simple.

When the video has a caption track, Scrivi reads it in seconds, and that is free on the free plan (20 caption transcripts and 3 AI summaries a day). YouTube usually generates captions for a new upload automatically, but processing can take a while after the upload finishes. If a fresh video shows no transcript yet, waiting a bit often fixes it.

When there is no caption track at all, Scrivi can transcribe the audio with speech-to-text. That runs on the paid plans: the $2.99 Day Pass for 24 hours, or Pro at $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Paid audio transcription handles recordings up to 3 hours long, which covers almost any meeting or workshop.

Meeting notes are more useful when they show who committed to what. On paid plans Scrivi can detect the different speakers in a transcript and label the segments, and you can show or hide the labels in the transcript view. That makes it easy to scan for everything one person said, or to attribute a decision correctly in the memo.

Paid plans also add Ask AI. Type a question such as "What did we decide about the launch date?" or "List every open question from this meeting" and get an answer based on the transcript, so you do not have to search for it yourself.

One memo is helpful. A searchable archive of every recorded meeting is better. Every transcript you save in Scrivi is searchable from your dashboard, so a decision from three months ago is a keyword away.

The AI summary maps neatly onto the memo format most teams already use. Start with the overview as the opening paragraph: it tells readers in four to six sentences what the meeting covered and where it landed. Follow with the key points as the main body, since they hold the arguments, numbers, and conclusions that were said out loud. Close with the action items as a checklist, and add an owner and a due date to each one yourself.

The chapters are useful for longer sessions. They show how the discussion actually moved, which is rarely the same as the agenda. Paste the chapter titles under a heading such as "Discussion" and readers can see at a glance which topics took the most time.

Your saved transcripts are private to your Scrivi account and can be deleted at any time. Scrivi only uses the link you paste to fetch the video's captions or audio. For sensitive internal meetings, keep the YouTube upload unlisted rather than public, and remove it once you have the transcript if you do not need the video anymore.